Personal growth
Whose advice are you building your life around?
Don’t take advice from someone whose life you would not want to live. That is the blunt version of what I shared.
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Personal growth
A promise kept. A question asked. Something you finally begin. I write about personal growth through choices you can recognise in an ordinary day. Start with self-respect and the promises you keep or turning an intention into a next step.
When the next step feels difficult, explore acting while you are still afraid. When you need another perspective, try choosing a book for the question you are living with.
Personal growth
Since when are we too small to ask a question?
A reply to my Berlin airport video turned a conversation about an airport into something much more personal.
Personal growth
The airplane state: making room for an idea
Some of my best business ideas come to me on flights. Fewer interruptions, movement, the sky outside. I call it the airplane state. I am interested…
Personal growth
Friends, a flight and the habits you make normal
A flight. Friends. A book within reach. I used that small scene to ask a bigger question: what habits do we make normal around each other?
Personal growth
A passport does not build your courage
A stronger passport can open a border. It cannot make the decision to begin for you. I have lived between countries, and I care about that…
Personal growth
Self-respect starts with the promises you keep
You made yourself a promise. Did you keep it? For me, self-respect starts there—in the small agreements nobody else is checking.
Personal growth
Limiting beliefs: put “I can’t” to the test
“I can’t.” “It won’t work here.” “You need connections.” I hear those sentences around Kosovo. Before you let one decide your future, ask: have I actually…
Personal growth
HYROX wall balls: the squat depth I needed to improve
My HYROX training post admitted that our squats needed more depth. What the official wall-ball standard asks for, and how to review a repetition.
Personal growth
You do not have to become your old self again
“I want to be myself again.” I understand that wish. But after everything you have lived through, why should your next chapter have to look exactly…
Personal growth
Give the day structure while you are looking for work
When you are looking for work, a day can lose its shape. I would start by giving it one: time to apply, time to learn, time…